(Side question: why are women [Allison, bake, and now Noesis] so often the master shredders of Molyneux’s [il]logic? This question has been submitted to the massive FDR Liberated data analysis team. In the meantime, discuss.)

At any rate, on Jan 31, 2011, gentle Noesis opened a thread entitled Debate about UPB (Moral Nihilism). As bake had done before with RTR, Noesis pointed out a few flaws in Molyneux’s logic and offered to debate them.

Well, it became an epic thread and just the sort of thing Molyneux hates. Noesis spoke well, thought well, and reacted with courtesy to all comers. It raged on for 29 pages.

Unable to out-think her, Molyneux and his True Believers decided to defoo the thread entirely (i.e., run away) so it would scroll off the main page and you’d never see it.

Noesis’s well played argument does deserve an FDR Liberated article of its own but in the meantime just enjoy it for what it is—one very smart woman taking down “The largest and most popular philosophical conversation in the world.”

The very last sentence in the thread belongs to someone other than Noesis. He asked “So is this an open discussion about logic and philosophy, or just a cult of personality built around condemning anyone who disagrees with its dogma?”

Apparently, that question will hang suspended in mid-air for eternity, never to be answered.

Update! Stefan Molyneux showed up for Round 2 of the Smackdown! (And by “showed up,” I mean hiding in the background and banning people for disagreeing with him.) Anyway, don’t miss The Noesis saga—Stefan Molyneux smacks back!

Behind the camera

In 2007, he was the obscure leader of an "on-line community" who encouraged members to abandon friends and family "even if your parents were nice." Years later, his closest followers still appear to believe that defooing is about parental abuse.

Today, he employs people to patrol his Facebook page, YouTube account, and forum, deleting information and user accounts that challenge his self-proclaimed role as the "salvation of philosophy" and the first man in history to give parents a moral framework for "peaceful parenting." He buries opposing voices under hundreds and hundreds of his YouTube videos, in a relentless marketing effort to convince you he is an authority on (for want of a better word) "the truth."

This blog and forum are my attempts to collect those voices, to give you your best resource to see Stefan Molyneux and the Freedomain Radio community—behind the camera.